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You are here: Home / Latest News / Southam sells Chainbow to Savills, so who owns the embedded management companies now?

Southam sells Chainbow to Savills, so who owns the embedded management companies now?

June 29, 2016 //  by Sebastian O'Kelly

Chainbow9Roger Southam sells off Chainbow to Savills, but what about those supposed residents’ management companies?

Roger Southam has sold his company Chainbow, which has a net worth of £551,000, to property giant Savills. The sale price is likely to have been a bit higher.

LKP has asked both Mr Southam, who is also chairman of the Leasehold Advisory Service, and Taylor Wimpey to clarify the position of the residents’ management companies at nine Taylor Wimpey sites in London.

These companies are owned by Chainbow, with Mr Southam either the sole director or joint director with another Chainbow employee.

LKP sort clarification whether Mr Southam remains a director of these companies and, if so, how long he envisaged remaining in his post.

LKP also asked whether Savills is aware that these companies, although owned by Chainbow, are now deemed to be residents’ management companies that will be transferred to the control of leaseholders.

This undertaking has been made by both Taylor Wimpey and Chainbow since LKP’s began asking questions in April. Last year, leaseholders were informed in writing three times that they had no involvement at all in the embedded management companies.

To own an embedded management company in a tripartite lease means that the property management company is virtually unsackable. It is regarded as among the worst practices in leasehold.

It would appear that these embedded management companies are now owned by Savills.

Chainbow was established in 1989 and employs 28 staff, all of whom will join Savills with immediate effect.

The property information service Costar says: “Chainbow specialises in the residential block management, private rented and build to rent sectors providing property management and consultancy services to a range of clients including Taylor Wimpey, Englander Group and Westrock.”

http://www.costar.co.uk/en/assets/news/2016/June/Savills-acquires-Chainbow/

Prior to the decision to sell Chainbow, Mr Southam and executives of Taylor Wimpey met MPs Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick, and LKP, to discuss how control of the embedded management company at Mulberry Mews, Highbury, in north London, can be handed over to the leaseholders.

This process is proceeding at Mulberry Mews, but the status of the other embedded management companies is unclear.

Mr Southam was invited to comment before publication.

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Category: Latest News, LEASE, News, Roger Southam, Taylor WimpeyTag: Chainbow, Roger Southam, Savills, Taylor Wimpey

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  1. Michael Epstein

    June 29, 2016 at 6:02 pm

    There does seem to be a lot of consolidation in the property management sector, with leaseholders left without any control over issues that fundamentally affect their homes.
    Trade gossip suggests that in order to pay down debt Firstport have offloaded their Pembertons division to London based Dexters.

  2. Leaseholder

    June 29, 2016 at 7:58 pm

    This is why we need to change the legislation. It’s incredible it only takes 51% to take Britain out of the EU, but not even 75% is a certainty in appointing an independent managing agent.

  3. Michael Epstein

    June 30, 2016 at 7:42 am

    Presumably, whilst Mr Southam was making statements to re-assure leaseholders over the tri-party leases that Chainbow was embedded in, he would have known that he was selling out to Savilles?
    Any remaining vestige of Mr Southam’s integrity has just left the building.gyg

  4. Michael Epstein

    June 30, 2016 at 7:44 am

    Anyone wondering what the gyg was at the end of my last post, that was due to marmalade dropping on my keyboard!

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